Kailin Li

Kailin Li leads product design at Earnest, shaping lending experiences from new personal-loan products to application and checkout flows. She uses customer research, concept testing and cross-functional collaboration to make financial decisions easier to navigate, drawing on a background in cognitive science and economics.

Career

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Based in: San Francisco
Elsewhere

Earnest

Lead Product Designer
Aug 2026 — Present
Senior Product Designer
Jun 2024 — Present
Product Designer
Jul 2022 — Jun 2024
Product Design Intern
Jun 2021 — May 2022

Dolby

Marketing Operations Coordinator
Feb 2019 — May 2021
Dolby Laboratories · San Francisco, California, United States
Marketing Operations Intern
Jun 2018 — Dec 2018
Dolby Laboratories · San Francisco, California, United States

Ford Motor Company

Jan 2018 — May 2018

Product Design Consultant

Course Hero

Aug 2016 — Dec 2016

Project Manager

DEMIDEC CORP

Jun 2014 — Aug 2014

Economics Curriculum Writer

University of California - Berkeley

Cognitive Science and Economics, double major

University of California - Berkeley

Master's studies in design

University of Oulu

Products & media

itskailin.com

Designing Earnest’s personal-loan MVP

Her case study follows competitive research, customer interviews, cross-functional concept testing and application design, including how late-stage fraud requirements changed the flow. It explains her design contribution within the broader product team.

kailinli.cargo.site

Designing Earnest’s user dashboard

A case study on redesigning the student-loan dashboard to clarify next steps, surface relevant resources and support borrowers’ continued use of Earnest.

Writing

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Kailin Li

Earnest

Lead Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Product Designer

Product Design Intern

Dolby

Marketing Operations Coordinator

Marketing Operations Intern

Ford Motor Company

Course Hero

DEMIDEC CORP

University of California - Berkeley

University of California - Berkeley

University of Oulu

Products & media

Designing Earnest’s personal-loan MVP

Designing Earnest’s user dashboard

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